{"product_id":"touched-bodies-the-performative-turn-in-latin-american-art-9781978802025","title":"Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? In \u003ci\u003eTouched Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy. Based on original documents and innovative readings, her book brings politics and ethics to the discussion of artistic developments during the “long 1980s”. She describes the rise of performance art in the context of feminism, HIV-activism, and human right movements, taking a close look at the work of Diamela Eltit and Raúl Zurita from Chile, León Ferrari and Liliana Maresca from Argentina, and Marcos Kurtycz, the No Grupo art collective, and Proceso Pentágono from Mexico. The comparative study of the work of these artists attests to a performative turn in Latin American art during the 1980s that, like photography and film before, recast the artistic field as a whole, changing the ways in which we perceive art and understand its role in society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An astute and moving book, \u003ci\u003eTouched Bodies \u003c\/i\u003egives account of the transition from an aesthetics of representation to an aesthetics of embodiment and bodily vulnerability in Latin American art of the 1980s. A contribution to aesthetic theory as much as to the history of art, \u003ci\u003eTouched Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e extends our understanding of performance-based art in relationship to practices of vulnerability, dissensus, and cross-temporal performativity.” -- Rebecca Schneider * author of Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mara Polgovsky makes an outstanding contribution to the re-evaluation of the performative turn in adversarial art from 1970s and 1980s Latin America, expanding the genealogy of conceptualism and recalibrating the spectrum of body-centered practice. The originality of her approach provides unparalleled insights into the complex interaction between corporeality, political activism and the body as site of desire and vulnerability.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Erica Segre * author of Intersected Identities *\u003cbr\u003e\"Polgovsky’s book, which has already been shortlisted by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present for its 2020 Book Prize, brings to an international audience a series of artists who have broken the mould of Latin America’s default posture of political protest and produced works which sometimes condense the cry of despair in its barest expression by breaking down the gulf between their bodies and their work. She has brought to the project a remarkable combination of philosophical erudition and descriptive skill, plus the unstoppable curiosity of the best researchers. The book marks a turning point.\" * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“An astute and moving book, \u003ci\u003eTouched Bodies \u003c\/i\u003egives account of the transition from an aesthetics of representation to an aesthetics of embodiment and bodily vulnerability in Latin American art of the 1980s. A contribution to aesthetic theory as much as to the history of art, \u003ci\u003eTouched Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e extends our understanding of performance-based art in relationship to practices of vulnerability, dissensus, and cross-temporal performativity.” -- Rebecca Schneider * author of Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mara Polgovsky makes an outstanding contribution to the re-evaluation of the performative turn in adversarial art from 1970s and 1980s Latin America, expanding the genealogy of conceptualism and recalibrating the spectrum of body-centered practice. The originality of her approach provides unparalleled insights into the complex interaction between corporeality, political activism and the body as site of desire and vulnerability.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Erica Segre * author of Intersected Identities *\u003cbr\u003e\"Polgovsky’s book, which has already been shortlisted by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present for its 2020 Book Prize, brings to an international audience a series of artists who have broken the mould of Latin America’s default posture of political protest and produced works which sometimes condense the cry of despair in its barest expression by breaking down the gulf between their bodies and their work. She has brought to the project a remarkable combination of philosophical erudition and descriptive skill, plus the unstoppable curiosity of the best researchers. The book marks a turning point.\" * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e             Corporeal calligraphies in times of change\u003cbr\u003e             The long 1980s: redefining the temporality of art\u003cbr\u003e             From curatorial to historical revisionism\u003cbr\u003e             Beyond the art of post-dictatorship\u003cbr\u003e             From memory studies to the aesthetics of dissensus\u003cbr\u003e             The performative turn\u003cbr\u003e             The ethics of performance\u003cbr\u003e             Overview of chapters\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 – Writing the Body\u003cbr\u003e             A precarious aesthetic\u003cbr\u003e             A monstrous scene\u003cbr\u003e             Territories of excess\u003cbr\u003e             Sacrificial bodies\u003cbr\u003e             Neonic Obscenity\u003cbr\u003e             A mystical occasion\u003cbr\u003e             Sor Teresa, la Lumpérica\u003cbr\u003e             A corporeal rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e             The implicated self\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 – Lamentations\u003cbr\u003e             Prayerful acts\u003cbr\u003e             Sky writing and the poetics of ambiguity\u003cbr\u003e             The new life\u003cbr\u003e             Song for his\/her disappeared love\u003cbr\u003e             The politics of lamentation\u003cbr\u003e             Purgatory\u003cbr\u003e             Neither sorrow nor fear\u003cbr\u003e             (Un)godly fragments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 – Mē mou haptou: Touch, Ethics, and History\u003cbr\u003e             Waiting for Ariel\u003cbr\u003e             A political medium?\u003cbr\u003e             A tortured era\u003cbr\u003e             A glimpse into 1960s collage\u003cbr\u003e             Noli me tangere\u003cbr\u003e             Brailles\u003cbr\u003e             The haptic gaze\u003cbr\u003e             Never Again\u003cbr\u003e             Scenes from inferno\u003cbr\u003e             Pacem in terris\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 – Nudities\u003cbr\u003e             Le féminin\u003cbr\u003e             Christs and mannequins\u003cbr\u003e             Divine phobia\u003cbr\u003e             Intimacy reawakened\u003cbr\u003e             A scourge from God?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 – Ritual and\/of Violence\u003cbr\u003e             Potlatch\u003cbr\u003e             The scene of destruction\u003cbr\u003e             The scene of war\u003cbr\u003e             Mexico’s parodic guerrilla art\u003cbr\u003e             The scene of ritual\u003cbr\u003e             Liminal personae\u003cbr\u003e             The scene of terror\u003cbr\u003e             Letter bombing\u003cbr\u003e             The scene of the self\u003cbr\u003e             Exploding time\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 – Cybernetics and Face-off Play\u003cbr\u003e             The hybrid face\u003cbr\u003e             The interface\u003cbr\u003e             Facial traces\u003cbr\u003e             The (post-)facial matrix\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Touched bodies\u003cbr\u003e The trace\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of References\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415227605335,"sku":"9781978802025","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978802025.jpg?v=1730526332","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/touched-bodies-the-performative-turn-in-latin-american-art-9781978802025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}